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In reply to the discussion: 20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core": [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)americans are more educated than ever before in history.
as the education gap has narrowed, the income gap has widened.
you didn't acknowledge that, you just kept pretending that people are poor because they don't have skills.
no, they're poor because a capitalist system creates poor as it creates rich. the more rich, the richer, the more poor.
it has nothing at all to do with education. nothing. education may help *individuals* to improve their situation, but in such a system one individual rising = another falling to take his place. there are only so many slots, and increasing the general level of education doesn't increase the number of slots, it just makes the competition for the slots divide along finer and finer lines.
there has never been *any* capitalist society that didn't have a substantial income gap, nor any capitalist society that had enough living wage jobs for all takers.